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Searching for stars : stardom and screen acting in British cinema / / Geoffrey Macnab



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Autore: Macnab Geoffrey <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Searching for stars : stardom and screen acting in British cinema / / Geoffrey Macnab Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Cassell, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43/0941
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Great Britain - History
Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Of Knights and Clowns; 2. The Not-So-Roaring 20s: Ivor Novello and Betty Balfour; 3. The King, the Queen and the Dancing Divinity; 4. Carnival and Consensus; 5. Stock Types; 6. Exotic Outsiders; 7. Lockwood, Calvert and Some Other Contract Artists; 8. Starmakers; 9. The End of the Studio System
Sommario/riassunto: Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars. The text looks at the way theatre and music hall spawned their stars, and asks why so many of them found the transition to film so awkward. It compares the British star system with that of Hollywood. What sort of contracts were British stars offered? How much were they paid? Who dealt with their publicity? How did Britsh fans regard them? There are essays on key figures (Novello, Fields, Formby, Dors, Bogarde, Mason, Matthews), and assessment of how British stars fared in Hollywood, an analysis of the effects of clas
Titolo autorizzato: Searching for stars  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-20746-X
9786613207463
1-4411-8425-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910829099003321
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Serie: Rethinking British cinema.